From: ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!elephant.cis.ohio-state.e du!weide@rutgers.edu (Bruce Weide)
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance in Ada 9X/Pointers?
Date: 8 Jan 92 15:38:57 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Jan8.153857.26769@cis.ohio-state.edu> (raw)
In article <1992Jan06.185123.188@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim ADCOCK
) writes:
>... in C++ pointers remain the greatest
>power and the greatest danger. Perhaps we should be discussing doing away
>with pointers in C++ -- not MI !?
>
>1/2 ;-)
>
Not a bad idea! How about discussing this question? In Ada or C++,
say, it would be hard to do away with pointers without changing the
language :-) but what about a software discipline that says, "Don't
USE pointers." Anyone else think it's worth discussing?
-Bruce
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